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After the recent shooting in New York in which three young men were injured and a groom killed, Americans have turned their attention to the African American community anticipating a massive uprising of protest. It has not happen yet, but as a suggestion, one should examine the grivences of African Americans. Like most people of the world who are confronted with media bias, stereotyping, demonization and dehumanization of their communities, the African American community have legitimate griev...

A number of readers have written to suggest that the guidelines for talkback responses listed below - in particular the prohibition on use of the phrase "There are no Palestinians" - are fascistic, capricious, anti-democratic, a blatant curb on free speech. That is not true. The guidelines are not capricious....

Review written on Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" from a Native woman's perspective....

A recent accident involving a Hollywood Star, Lane Garrison, of Prison Break fame only adds fuel to the media frenzy that loves to report on Hollywood scandals - think Mel Gibson and Michael Richards. But the real scandal, notes Beat Within editor, Michael Kroll, are the fatalities caused by drunk driving, and the ongoing problems of racism that all Americans must confront....

The author explains why she insists on wearing the traditional Indian "dot", despite the confusion it seems to elicit from curious American onlookers. Viji Sundaram is a writer for New America Media....

All stories have beginnings – and a story of Common Ground Relief begins with the theme we all are part of, but may not want to think about – life and death. However, before this became visible, while the waters still flowed, I was first faced with survival. Not only my own, but that of people I knew and loved – and of the thousands I have never met – who lived in the Gulf Coast region in the fall of 2005....

Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc is a community center that serves the Mexican and indigenous peoples of this land. The Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc is located at 520 So. 2nd Street, San Jose, CA 95112. It began on February 2, 2000 and has served as a gathering site for Raza on issues of culture, history of la Raza and other peoples of the world, educational events and self-defense campaigns regarding police abuse, imprisonment, landlord/tenants issues and immigration....

The N-word continues to hold great power because of the historic behavior and terrorist actions associated with the word sound, steeped in evil intentions. Our U.S. Government placed tombstones that effectively read "Unknown Niggers" and few seem to care....

Telephone interview with Peter J. Wirs (Chairman of Philadelphia's 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee) about the new criminal charges filed against two French cities supporting journalist and death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal....